Talkleft points out this excellent SKBubba rant. Here’s his conclusion:
But only in America can a harmless homemaker/cooking show host be cooling her jets in Federal prison for fibbing about a crime she did not commit and was never charged with while the President of the United States can stand before the people and lie about the economy, taxes, the deficit, and the reasons for taking us into a war that has cost the lives of over 1000 American soldiers, countless civilian lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Only in America can Martha Stewart sit in prison while Ashcroft gets away with shredding the Constitution and Rumsfeld presides over the torture and murder of prisoners of war in violation of international law while Bush pats them on the back for a job well done and nearly half the people in America agree and think this crew ought to be allowed to stay in the White House instead of being sent to jail. Go figure.
OK, then.
Oh, and speaking of Rumsfeld: Killer Clownshoes Spreads More Death Check out the picture of Rumsfeld in his Bremer costume.
Meanwhile, car bombs explode in Baghdad and at least one US soldier died in one of the explosions. Probably by now they’ve scraped up all the body parts from the Oil Ministry car bombing, while Reuters informs us that the “Iraqi government” is mulling the possibility of committing a mini-ethnic cleansing by moving out all the Iraqi families who are unfortunate enough to happen to live in the area the US took over as it’s fortress because the fortress is getting more dangerous by the day, which is probably why this article surfaced yesterday:Iraqis Want U.S. Out of Green Zone .
The hideous Bigley beheading video was posted on the net today, amid accusations that the US could have saved his life by releasing Iraqi women scheduled to be released anyway. The US declined to release them, prompting Charles Glass, who was once held hostage in Beirut by Hizbollah, to comment, “In other words, the Iraqi women detainees could have been released on the merits of their case without anyone ‘giving in.’ But to hold them as a way of proving that kidnapping does not pay was perverse. “ Everyone seems to focus on the two Iraqi scientists whose American captivity is well known, so I’ll ask again – What about al-Douri’s wife and daughter?? You’d think some enterprising reporter with access to the PTBs in Iraq would ask this question.
The Washington Post quotes frustrated, disgruntled Marines who speak freely to reporters, concluding with this cynical observation: Asked if he was concerned that the Marines would be punished for speaking out, Autin responded: “We don’t give a crap. What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?”